The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Our winning theme for October is True Crime. Please nominate a book that fits the theme that you would like to read and discuss with the group below. Please be sure that 'true crime' is noted in the genres on the book's main page.

* Our rules for general nominations also apply to this thread.
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Link to bookshelf for 2 year rule.
➙ Ineligible books: (view spoiler)[

All the Light We Cannot See
The Book Thief
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Giver
Little Women
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Shining
The Silent Patient

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Nominations:
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
A Stolen Life
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

If you're looking for some inspiration, Goodreads has this list Best True Crime that you can take a look at.

Your nomination does not need to come from this list and if you do use the list, please make sure to check that the book really is true crime. Sometimes books get added to lists that don't really fit, but at first glance the list looks pretty good.

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
Dean Jobb



When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most baffling investigations. “He has nerve and he has knowledge.”

In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream poisoned at least ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a death toll with almost no precedents. Structured around Cream’s London murder trial in 1892, when he was finally brought to justice, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt officials, and stifling morality of Victorian society that allowed Cream to prey on vulnerable and desperate women, many of whom had turned to him for medical help.

Dean Jobb vividly re-creates this largely forgotten historical account against the backdrop of the birth of modern policing and newly adopted forensic methods, though most police departments still scoffed at using science to solve crimes. But then most police departments could hardly imagine that serial killers existed—the term was unknown at the time. As the Chicago Tribune wrote then, Cream’s crimes marked the emergence of a new breed of killer, one who operated without motive or remorse, who “murdered simply for the sake of murder.”

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Taja wrote: "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI"

This book has been on my TBR for awhile, so I'll definitely vote for this one!

I nominate A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard

JoJo_theDoDo wrote: "Taja wrote: "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI"

This book has been on my TBR for awhile, so I'll definitely vote for this one!

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I have heard only good things about this book.

I nominate:
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

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